Romans 3:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

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  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
  • Luke 20:16 : 16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
  • Rom 9:14 : 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • Rom 11:11 : 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
  • Ps 119:160 : 160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
  • Ps 138:2 : 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
  • Mic 7:20 : 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
  • Matt 11:19 : 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 100:5 : 5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Job 36:3 : 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
  • John 3:33 : 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
  • Rom 3:6-7 : 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

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  • Rom 3:5-10
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    5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

    6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

    7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

    8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

    9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

    10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

  • 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

  • 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

  • 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

    2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

    3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

  • 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

  • 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

  • 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • Rom 1:17-18
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    17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

    18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

  • 6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

  • 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

  • 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

  • 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

  • 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

  • Rom 14:11-12
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    11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

    12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

  • 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

  • Rom 4:2-3
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    2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

    3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

  • 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

  • 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  • 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

  • 25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

  • 2 Cor 13:7-8
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    7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

    8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

  • 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

  • 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

  • 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

  • 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

  • 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

  • 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

  • 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

  • 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

  • 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

  • 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

  • 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

  • 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

  • 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

  • 12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

  • 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.